Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A party who is in possession of money or property of a debtor and has been notified by a court or other legal body that that money or property must be made available to satisfy a monetary judgment to the party owed by the debtor.
- transitive verb To garnish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a person warned, at the suit of a creditor plaintiff, not to pay money which he owes to, or deliver over property which belongs to, the defendant, because he is indebted to the plaintiff.
- In law, to stop in the hands of a third person, by legal process (money due or property belonging to the plaintiff's debtor), in order to require it to be paid over to plaintiff in satisfaction of his demand: as, to
garnishee the wages of a debtor, or his bank account.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.
- transitive verb To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.
- transitive verb To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law the person whose money is
garnished - verb transitive, law the act of attaching the property sought to be secured.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wage earner who is served with a garnishment
- verb take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
Etymologies
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Examples
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LIMITED RECOURSE Contracts for federal student loans stipulate severe penalties and are virtually unbreakable, forgiven only in death, not bankruptcy, and enforced by severe measures, such as garnishee and other legal sanctions, with little recourse.
Apollo's Daughter :: Recession Discussion apollosdtr 2009
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LIMITED RECOURSE Contracts for federal student loans stipulate severe penalties and are virtually unbreakable, forgiven only in death, not bankruptcy, and enforced by severe measures, such as garnishee and other legal sanctions, with little recourse.
Apollo's Daughter :: February 21st, 2009 apollosdtr 2009
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Councils to help themselves to your bank account only a small piece in the Telegraph but the implications are writ large- Defy the State and we will 'garnishee' your bank account and wreck your credit record.
Councils to help themselves to your bank account Guthrum 2008
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Schussler called for a limit on "garnishee" orders - money taken off employees 'pay cheques to settle debts.
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The verb usage of the word "garnishee" is a decidedly minority usage (disfavored by a margin of 675-11 in one computerized legal research search, with one citation implying that "garnishee" is incorrect), that should be avoided.
Wash Park Prophet 2009
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Many creditors will attempt to "garnishee" your wages.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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California doesn't allow debt collectors to garnishee the bank accounts of delinquent borrowers.
In Debt Collecting, Location Matters Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2011
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“To garnishee” logically could mean, if anything, “to place in the status of garnishee.”
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Once “garnishee” becomes established as the verb form, judgment creditors will go to court seeking to garnishee the wages of their judgment debtors.
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I –hate– the sound of “garnishee,” “garnish” sounds much more natural.
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